The Strife Zones.
The Holy Church of Death.
The church.
"Good morning, sir"
"Greetings, sir"
"Esteemed sir, what business do you have?"
The believers all bowed to greet him.
Black Dog hovered in the air and nodded to the believers.
"Anna still hasn't come out?" he asked.
"That's right, she's still training her skills in the Withered world"
"I'll go take a look"
Saying so, Black Dog disappeared from the church.
A second later, he appeared in a gloomy world.
"The presence of death … I can sense it, it's over there"
Black Dog found the right direction and flew at an unimaginable speed. In just a few breaths' worth of time, he arrived at his destination.
He landed on top of a skyscraper and looked at the ruins of the world in the distance.
Only to see a gigantic figure approaching from afar from the faint grey light.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Every step the figure took caused the ground to shake violently.
Black Dog silently stared at the figure until it stopped in front of the skyscraper.
— — -the figure was almost as tall as the skyscraper, its entire body was covered in pale white armor, its helmet was even tighter without a single gap for eyes to see through.
As it stood still, the ground it touched slowly turned from dirt to gravel. Even the skyscraper that Black Dog was standing on was slowly decaying.
Black Dog looked at this gigantic monster and solemnly asked: "Withered Envoy, do you pledge your loyalty to the Holy Church of Death?"
Heavy breathing could be heard from behind the armor, as if the monster was going through some sort of struggle and hesitation.
At this point, a person suddenly appeared on top of the monster's helmet.
Anna.
Anna who had been focused on her cultivation had once again appeared.
She didn't look any different from before, still beautiful and full of youthful vigor.
However, her crimson red hair had changed a bit.
Her long hair had turned completely black, but it wasn't a normal black, instead it was giving off a mysterious and unfathomable aura of darkness.
Anna disinterestedly raised her long black scythe, swung it horizontally, and struck the sturdy helmet of the monster.
"Don't give me any trouble, did you forget what I told you just now?" she asked.
The monster stopped breathing in pain and slowly knelt in front of Black Dog.
"I swear my loyalty to the Holy Church of Death"
The monster let out a thunderous sound and spoke.
Black Dog got his answer, and his body immediately surged with raging dark flames.
The black flames formed a line of text in the air and flew straight into the monster's body.
The monster trembled in pain and only regained its composure after a while.
Black Dog said, "The Divine Contract has been formed. Come, before all things end, you will be in the arms of the God of Death. This is the highest honor."
Bang –
On both sides of the Withered Envoy's body, two giant black doors suddenly opened.
The Withered Envoy didn't have time to do anything, and its figure disappeared into the dark door.
But Anna was safe and sound.
She landed lightly on the skyscraper, put the Dark Scythe on her shoulder, and yawned.
"I'm so tired. I'm going back to sleep. Oh yes, what are you doing here?"
Black Dog was silent for a while, then said, "You can even subdue the Withering Messenger. I have to say, your progress is quite fast."
"Nonsense, get to the point."
"I'm afraid you won't have time to sleep."
"Why should I? I worked so hard to deal with a troublemaker, don't even think about ordering me to do anything else — — I want to go back to my beauty sleep! "
"… I'll buy you a drink"
"So generous? Don't tell me I'm paying again? "
"No, of course I'm paying. If you're still worried, I'll pay first after you've ordered, then we can drink together"
"Heehee, that's quite sincere. Very well, I'll go with you for a drink before going back to sleep"
"But before that, you have to represent the Holy Church of Death to greet a few guests"
"So you still want to order me around. Hmph, no need, I don't want to go with you, I can go buy myself a drink!"
"Anna, listen to me, this is the easiest job. You only need to say a few words to those people, then you can come back and I'll buy you a drink" Black Dog said.
"Really?" Anna was a bit doubtful.
"Of course! I've given the others extremely difficult jobs, but you're different. Since we're so close in private, I've secretly given you the easiest job "Black Dog sincerely told her.
"… If it's just to greet them, if it doesn't take too long, it's fine" Anna muttered.
"Of course! I'll wait for you at the Holy Church, we'll go to the bar as soon as you come back! "Black Dog said.
"Very well, seeing how sincere you are, I'll go — — - but you have to tell me who they are and what I'm going to say when I get there"
"They're all allies of the Holy Church, core members of their respective forces, about the same status as you"
"Why am I going to see them?"
"To get to know each other, to avoid hurting each other in battle later on"
"That's simple, then let's go, finish what we need to do and come back for a drink"
Saying so, the man and dog disappeared from the Withered World.
A few moments later.
Anna hurriedly arrived at a certain secret meeting room of the Holy Church.
There were already 7-8 men and women waiting here.
They came from various sects and forces, all of them were powerful Combatants.
"My apologies, I'm late"
She was wearing a long black dress and spoke elegantly.
"Hmph, it's clearly such an important matter and you're still so late" a fully-armored woman with a nervous expression commented.
"Hm? My time is just right, or were you hoping for death to arrive a bit earlier? "Anna smiled and said.
Seeing how relaxed she was, the woman recalled her identity as a member of the Holy Church of Death, so she held back and didn't say anything else.
Anna looked at everyone's expressions and asked in confusion: "Everyone, sit down, there are so many seats, what are you all standing for?"
One of the men glanced at the pocket watch in his hand and replied: "I'm afraid we don't have time to sit down and talk"
"That's right, since the people of the Holy Church of Death are here, we can begin now" another person said.
Everyone turned to a woman with a misty figure.
Seeing everyone looking at her, the woman said: "Then let's go, but we'll need a bit of protection as we travel between the World Layers of the Strife Zones"
"I'll do that" another person said.
He was holding a sphere of frost in his hand that gave off an eerie chill.
"My frost technique will be able to seal all of our presence to the maximum, making it impossible for anyone to notice — — of course, during this process, everyone will be completely frozen for 30 breaths' worth of time, temporarily unable to move"
Someone praised: "It's just being frozen, we don't need to endure any pain, that's already good enough"
"That's right, there's no time to lose, let's move right away" another person urged.
Listening to everyone's conversation, Anna couldn't help but be surprised.
The situation in front of me seems to be a bit different from what Black Dog said.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to ask — — -"
She was trying to ask something.
But it was too late.
The sphere of frost had already been crushed.
In an instant, everyone in the room was covered in a layer of frost.
Anna couldn't move!
Everyone else couldn't move either!
At the same time, the illusory woman had already activated her spell.
A giant mouth appeared below everyone's feet.
The huge mouth rushed upwards and swallowed everyone into its mouth.
Following that, a transparent monster crawled out from the ground.
This monster looked a bit like a giant fish from the Age of Old.
It shook its body a bit, then quickly disappeared into the void of space, heading towards a certain World Layer.
On another side.
At the top of the divine temple.
A conversation was silently taking place.
"Is it a good idea to lie to her like that?" Black Crow asked.
"Such a troublesome matter, there's no way to make her agree to go, so this is the only thing I can do" Black Dog replied.
"But when she returns, she'll tear the divine temple apart again" Black Crow sighed.
"Let her do as she pleases. Speaking of which, I need to go on a very difficult missionary mission right now, I won't be able to return for a while" Black Dog said.
It suddenly disappeared.
Only Black Crow remained at the top of the divine temple.
Black Crow went silent for a while.
"She ran away because she was afraid of a mortal getting angry, that's … so embarrassing"
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